Returning to the Villain Omega's High School Days - Chapter 5

In the year 2000, when the new century arrived, God gave humanity a gift—

Humans began a second differentiation. On top of the original male and female sexes, they differentiated further into Alpha, Beta, and Omega. All at once, human gender became much richer. This meant the end of the male-dominated era, and the age of Alpha rule was about to arrive.

At the beginning of the century, people thought this kind of differentiation would grant women higher status and benefit social fairness. But after reading the entirety of Rongcheng, one would understand that this differentiation would only intensify social inequality and subject vulnerable groups to even more oppression.

One very clear example was that after the monogamous marriage system was abolished, male Alphas generally married two to three wives, while female Alphas were basically still able to remain devoted to one person from beginning to end.

In the book, Su Xingheng regarded himself as an upright character. Because he could not stand the Xie family’s capitalist style of throwing their weight around, he chose to destroy the Xie family. Because he did not want the fake younger sister who had accompanied him for more than ten years to be hurt, he never acknowledged Su Wan’s position in the Su family. Because he was unwilling to disappoint the people who loved him, he married three wives who did not get along very well, then allowed them to fight among themselves.

He was different from someone like Jiang Qingliu, whose evil seeped out from his bones. Su Xingheng’s evil was the kind that believed itself to be good, doing disgusting things under the banner of thinking for others.

In the original book:

Su Wan held a knife against his neck. She had already made up her mind to perish together with this man she had hated for twenty years.

“You can’t kill me, Su Wan. I’m your brother. I’m your only family.” Su Xingheng tore away the tape and shouted loudly.

“You’re not. My only family was Liu Ya, and… perhaps she counted too, the person she once was.”

Su Wan closed her eyes, and two clear lines of tears slid down her cheeks.

Why was it that when she thought of that person, she actually felt this sad?

“By heaven and earth, I never hurt Liu Ya!” Su Xingheng argued loudly. “I remember her. Because she was the younger sister from your adoptive parents’ family, I even took special care of her. I gave her gifts, and she accepted them all. Why should her death be blamed on me?!”

Su Xingheng paused. Looking at Su Wan’s dark, vicious gaze, he suddenly realized something. “Li Kuiran! That thing with Li Kuiran was your doing?! You killed him?!”

Li Kuiran was the man who had forcibly marked Liu Ya back then and damaged Liu Ya’s gland before it had fully developed. He was the one who had pushed Liu Ya into the abyss, while what Su Xingheng had done was heart-killing. He had completely destroyed Liu Ya’s will to live.

The former died of cyanide poisoning at home in the second year after Liu Ya’s death. By then, people had already forgotten about Liu Ya’s matter, so naturally, no one suspected Su Wan.

Su Xingheng remembered now. He was furious and denounced her. “You’re practically a demon. You were the one who got that cyanide, weren’t you? I remember now. You originally studied medicine! The reason you didn’t become a doctor was so our whole family would lower our guard against you, making it easier for you to act against us?!”

In truth, these past years, Su Wan had stayed idle at home for all kinds of reasons. On the surface, it seemed as though she had been deeply affected by her marriage, but in reality, it had only been to gain the Su family’s trust. She learned cooking, earned a nutritionist certificate, did various miscellaneous work, assisted in managing the Su family, then used her professional knowledge to mix drugs into the Su family’s food. As long as the dosage was small enough not to be tasted, she could poison them over a long period of time.

She had been weak since birth. She had no martial ability, no right to speak, and could not protect the people she wanted to protect. She could only rely on all kinds of schemes and careful calculations.

Su Wan looked at him expressionlessly and said each word clearly, “Even now, I can use a scalpel to peel your skin off piece by piece.”

Su Xingheng shuddered. His lips moved, and he said, “Little sister.”

Su Wan’s eyes shifted slightly, and she lowered her gaze to look at him.

Su Xingheng seized the opportunity and hurriedly said, “Little sister, I was wrong before. I neglected you. Little sister, calm down. You can’t kill me. I… I don’t want to die. I haven’t even seen my biological son… Little sister, that child is your nephew too. He’s your blood relative. Don’t you… like children?”

In all the thirty-plus years Su Wan had lived, the number of times she heard Su Xingheng call her “little sister” on this one night might have been more than she had heard in her entire life.

Su Xingheng’s “little sister” was that girl.

That girl who had always refused to admit that she had occupied the magpie’s nest, the true girl of the Liu family.

In terms of blood relations, she was the one who was Liu Ya’s biological older sister. But when something happened to Liu Ya, what had she done?

She looked on coldly. “Don’t come looking for me. I don’t have such an embarrassing little sister.”

She mocked her with cutting sarcasm. “This is called bringing ruin on yourself. Thank goodness I wasn’t born into the Liu family. The Liu family actually raised people like you!”

And then there was that rotten-to-the-bone suggestion of hers: “I’ll kindly give you some advice. Li Kuiran’s family is well-off. If you please him properly, maybe he’ll change his mind about you.”

Her name was Su Jin. In name, she was the girl of the Su family, Su Xingheng’s younger sister. But in truth, she desired Su Xingheng more than anyone else.

Her possessiveness was extremely strong. She both wanted Su Xingheng and refused to be removed from the Su family’s household register, yet in the end, she gained nothing. Su Xingheng married three wives, and every single one of them was a woman Su Jin hated to madness.

She had also given Su Xingheng two children. One died young at three years old, while the other was born prematurely and did not live past the first month. Even so, she still fought desperately to give birth to a third.

Only like this could she hold on to her place in Su Xingheng’s heart. After suffering blow after blow, she was finally sent to a psychiatric hospital by Su Xingheng.

How utterly forced Su Xingheng had been. At her hospital bed, he had held Su Jin’s hand and said over and over again, “Little sister, I’m sorry.”

Thinking of all this, Su Wan only wanted to laugh. She said faintly, “Su Xingheng, when you say things like that, won’t that little sister of yours in 303 Hospital feel sad?”

“She isn’t my sister. You’re my sister.” Su Xingheng looked at Su Wan eagerly, almost begging as he said, “After all these years, I finally understand. You’re my real sister. Only you could make me lose like this, make me lose everything completely… Spare me, Su Wan.”

Su Wan ignored him. The knife in her hand slid across Su Xingheng’s neck. That terrifying, subtle sting made every hair on Su Xingheng’s body stand on end. He closed his eyes, and even his breathing stopped.

With a clang, the knife fell to the floor. He sensed Su Wan walking away.

Had she changed her mind?

His skin did not feel as though it had been cut open either. Sure enough, Su Wan had only been scaring him, right?

Su Xingheng slowly let out a breath, but in the next moment, he gave a muffled groan—

The back of his neck had been pierced by a needle. He felt a swelling pain. What had Su Wan injected into him?!!

He began to feel weak. His muscles grew exhausted, and his entire body went limp. His head dropped against the back of the chair, and even his breathing became feeble.

“You…” He wanted to speak, but he could not summon any strength. He could not even open his lips. Fear made his pupils shrink sharply, and a chill spread from the top of his head all the way to his toes, as if his entire body had been submerged in icy seawater.

“It’s a muscle relaxant,” Su Wan’s voice said softly by his ear. “It can make all the skeletal muscles in your body lose the ability to move. In other words, you can’t move, can’t speak, can’t blink, and can’t breathe.”

This was even more unbearable than killing him directly!

Su Xingheng had never experienced anything this terrifying in his life! His consciousness was completely clear, yet he could not move. He did not even have the strength to lift his eyelids.

His breathing gradually weakened, then stopped.

Help.

Su Xingheng shouted desperately in his heart. Without oxygen, he would die immediately. His head began buzzing and swelling. The lack of oxygen had already made his blood circulation sluggish. It was as if he could already see the god of death close at hand!

Su Xingheng struggled soundlessly, but he could not produce any reaction. He could not even make the tiny movement of shifting his pupils.

His heartbeat grew faster and faster. Cold sweat poured from him, and even thinking became extremely difficult. The lack of oxygen made him unable to focus.

He could not go on like this! He had to slow his heartbeat down. This would only consume even more oxygen!

A bead of sweat hung on his face. It itched unbearably, but he could not scratch it.

Su Wan’s viciousness had completely exceeded his imagination! She would actually use this kind of method to torture him?!

Who would save him?

It was working hours right now. There were still six hours before the end of the workday. Before that, his lovely three wives would not take the initiative to call him, because this was a family rule he had set—no disturbing him while he was working.

His chief assistant and everyone else in the company had been sent away by Su Wan, right? With her personality, since she had decided to kill him, she would definitely make thorough plans.

Was he really going to die here?

Die at the hands of his biological sister?!

Su Xingheng felt suffocated. He had lived his entire life under a halo and had never experienced such a serious setback. And what pained him most was that the three sons he loved so dearly were actually not his biological sons?!

Countless chaotic thoughts surfaced in his mind. He was in pain, remorseful, unwilling. He had never feared death this much before. He only wanted to live. He wanted to meet that biological son of his.

If he died here, how many years would pass before anyone knew the secret that his son had been switched?

No matter what kind of family his son had been switched into, it could not possibly be as wealthy and happy as his own. He could give his son the best of everything, let him attend the best schools. He could become a pilot, a politician, a great entrepreneur.

If he were allowed to grow up in an ordinary family, he would spend his entire life working for others, exploited by others.

Su Wan, let me go. Let me go!

With a soft puchi, Su Wan seemed to stab something into his neck.

Had she still decided to kill him with her own hands?

Su Xingheng could not see. His eyelids drooped, impossible to lift.

But he did not bleed much. Or rather, he did not bleed at all. Not only that, he felt the coolness of oxygen.

Airflow was being delivered through his throat, straight into his lungs.

Su Wan had… performed a puncture on him?

If a hole was made between the gap of the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage, then oxygen could indeed be sent directly through a tube into the lungs via the throat.

This kind of method was generally used for emergency treatment in medicine. If a patient’s throat was blocked and they could not breathe, a hole could be made in the neck so the patient could breathe.

A method used for emergency rescue was now being used to torture him.

How ironic.

Su Wan had gotten a ventilator from somewhere and placed it beside Su Xingheng, inserting the tube into his neck.

The ventilator beeped rhythmically. Su Xingheng felt indescribably terrified. He could breathe now, but he felt as if he had become a jar, a distillation flask, a piece of laboratory equipment. Even inhaling and exhaling were no longer things he could control on his own.

His eyelids were pried open, and he saw Su Wan’s face.

On her face, there was none of the perverse, triumphant expression Su Xingheng had imagined. Instead, she seemed somewhat curious. Her eyes were clear and pure. After observing him for a moment, she used tape to stick his eyelids to his eyebrows. Like this, he could see the situation around him clearly.

Su Xingheng could not make any expression. He could not even move his eyeballs. But Su Wan could tell that he was very afraid. He had never been this afraid in his life.

Since there was a ventilator, why not give him an oxygen mask? Why puncture his neck?

The question rose in his mind. In the next moment, he saw Su Wan actually pick up a needle and sew his nose and mouth shut?!

Like sewing up a doll, Su Wan’s expression while doing these things was exceptionally peaceful, calm, and gentle.

Time passed little by little. Every minute and every second, Su Xingheng lived in pain and terror.

Sometimes Su Wan walked away. He did not know when she would come back. Would she save him? Or would she use an even crueler method to torture him?

If it was an injected muscle relaxant, then after a certain amount of time, it would be metabolized, right?

As long as he waited for the drug’s effects to wear off, he still had hope of surviving.

He endured it second by second, minute by minute. Because he could not blink, his eyes had already dried so badly that his vision was blurred. He was in extreme agony. If Su Wan were to bring some ants or something and let them crawl over his body right now, he would definitely be better off dead, wouldn’t he?!

He was already better off dead now.

On what basis could a scumbag like Xie Ning die quickly, while he had to suffer this kind of torment?!

Every year, he donated to charities. He never bullied the weak. He loved his family dearly, and he also deeply loved his sons and daughters, even though they were fake… Fine, maybe he had wronged Su Wan, but did it have to go this far?

His fingertip suddenly moved.

Su Xingheng immediately felt the hope of survival. The drug’s effect had passed. He had to seize the chance and escape?!

Before he could take action, Su Wan returned to the room again. This time, she brought an infusion pump. Its purpose was to continuously inject Su Xingheng with muscle relaxant.

After plugging it in, the infusion pump would inject him with muscle relaxant every half hour, ensuring that he could not break free.

The hope of surviving shattered right before his eyes. Su Xingheng felt as though death would be better than life. If he could make a sound, he would definitely beg Su Wan to kill him immediately.

After making the final arrangements, Su Wan left that room.

The ventilator would stop working four hours later. If Su Xingheng still was not dead by then, then it could only be called—

“A miracle.”

How could that be possible?

Su Wan calculated it in her heart. There was only one way for him to survive, but the probability of that was truly minuscule. It was like an asteroid striking Earth, something that might only happen once in several thousand years.

If something like that really happened, then perhaps there would no longer be anything in this world worthy of her faith.

Su Wan did not know that Su Xingheng’s birth itself was a miracle.

Just as he was about to breathe his last, the god of fate still favored him. The building he was trapped in suddenly suffered a power outage. The power was out for one minute, and the timing happened to be the exact minute when the drug in Su Xingheng’s body had just worn off, and the infusion pump was about to administer the second injection.

A building that would not lose power all year round suddenly lost power for no reason, and it just so happened to save Su Xingheng’s life.

He recovered his strength, broke free from the ropes binding him, removed the stitches, pulled out the ventilator, and immediately called the police!

Su Wan was thrown into prison, while Su Xingheng survived from a desperate situation as if reborn. He gained new insight and returned to the arms of his wives.

The book Rongcheng ended here.

Seeing this, Xie Ning completely lost her reason.

People like her and Su Wan lived in this world not to serve as supporting characters for that bastard Su Xingheng!

She was going to kill him and do for Su Wan what Su Wan could not do!

Author’s Note:

Warm reminder: this part is a little intense, so please prepare yourself mentally.

As for the medical knowledge, I consulted a doctor friend of mine. If there are any mistakes, please ignore them. Also, these are dangerous actions. Please, absolutely do not imitate them!!!